| Doug Stewart on 23 Nov 2010 03:49:20 -0800 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Virtualization for small system? |
VirtualBox, definitely. Much easier/more feature-complete for desktop use. Also, Xen has largely fallen out of favor, at least in Fedora/CentOS/RHEL circles -- KVM is where it's at. -- Doug Stewart On Nov 23, 2010, at 6:32 AM, Floyd Johnson <fljohnson3@isp.com> wrote: > Dear PLUGgers, > > At times, web development requires testing in Internet Explorer 8, which WINE can't seem to run as of version 1.3.7. As such, I am considering running Windows in a VM on my lappy. It's a 1 GB, 2x1.6GHz machine running Ubuntu 10.10 (small, but Linux makes it mighty). > > Which is the better virtualization gear for such a setup, VirtualBox or Xen? Or does something else make more sense? > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug